How to Use rail in a Sentence

rail

1 of 2 noun
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  • And things seemed to go off the rails at the end and many times in between.
    — Nr Staff, National Review, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Kansas City is one of the largest rail hubs in the nation.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The site is near the rail trail and next to the Merrimack River.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • The issues with the rail run from overly sharp curves to old bridges.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There is just one rail and road bridge from Russia to Crimea, across the Kerch Strait.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • For one, the rails are there as a balance assist, not a crutch, said Grund.
    — Brittany Hammond, Health, 22 June 2023
  • The stairs are located at the site of the first rail incline in Cincinnati.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024
  • The second part of the itinerary is where things get a little off the rails.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • For the light rail, the festival is between the 7th Street and 9th Street stations.
    — Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2024
  • Wagner's video shows a crack in a beam that appears to hold up the rails of the coaster.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • North American rail traffic is down 3.1% for the first 46 weeks of the year, AAR says.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • North American rail traffic is down 3.5% for the first 43 weeks of the year, AAR says.
    — WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
  • On your next journey across the United States, don’t overlook the rails.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Mystik Dan, with a smart ride up the rail, had pulled to about a three-length lead with about a sixteenth of a mile to go.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • Against that background, roads and rail links are Ukraine’s lifelines.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • At least 288 people were killed in June in India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the rail routes had been constructed by slave labor.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
  • While walking across a rail line with a load of steel pipes, he was struck by a train and one of his legs was mangled.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The dine-in restaurant now sits a short walk away from the light rail’s New Bern station and around the corner from the new Cookie Plug shop.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Predicting how an agent might go off the rails is not always easy, though.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Whoosh is Indonesia’s new high-speed rail line, which opened last fall.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The rail line will run within the highway median and support speeds of up to 200 mph.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Under the deal, the rail board would sell the railroad and use the proceeds to create a trust fund called Building Our Future.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
  • The four-person announce team began coming off the rails coming out of the break as the main event heated up.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Stinkin’ Fish are in Oakland again today in midst of a six-game Western roadie in a season on the rails to hell.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
  • The crew manned the rails during a small ceremony in Eastport, the eastern-most city in the United States.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The old rail line in Bentonville was not taken up until early 1918.
    — Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The cost of living is lower in Baltimore, and many commute by rail.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The fake blood, the cars on rails, the Potemkin villages, not to mention the computer graphics, the herds and armies and tempests that exist only in code.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • Both lived near the rail yard decades ago and died from mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure.
    — Amy Beth Hanson, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
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rail

2 of 2 verb
  • Not just someone to rail about, but someone to talk to.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Crow does it a third time and lands on the porch railing, drilling her with a yellow eye.
    — Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In the same 2017 blog, Frame Game railed against the censorship of his channel and of alt right ideas.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Critics from the center and the right railed that, even as the country burned, Mélenchon hadn’t called for calm.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Facing a major loss of power, Mr. Prigozhin railed loudly against the move, to no avail.
    — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 10 July 2023
  • Mom was a boundary-pusher who very much railed against the constraints on women at that time.
    — May Cobb, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2023
  • Nothing completes a garden balcony like a railing planter to add charm to the space.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2023
  • Trump in the interview also railed against Biden over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Sadly, men weren't the only ones to rail against women's suffrage.
    — Aj Willingham design: Kenneth Fowler, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • In his speech, the Russian leader once again railed against the West and accused it of trying to weaken his country.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In between the living and dining rooms sits the entryway, which once had flooring and a staircase railing of the era when the house was built.
    — Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Back in Florida on Tuesday evening, Trump gave a speech railing against the charges, but did not call for widespread protests.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In the Senate, a group of Republicans opposed to the foreign aid kept the chamber open all night to rail against it before the final vote.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • At one point, another man was thrown over the side of a railing, falling onto the concrete steps below.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the end, Tyler Brown said, people who rail against the movement as an existential threat to democracy should put up or shut up.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Instead of descending the stairs to a dinghy that could have taken her to safe shores, Tanya clumsily scales the yacht railing, catches a clunky heel and falls to her death.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
  • There are a lot of politicians in America who rail against immigration in racist ways.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 May 2022
  • With the pool railing, the stunt team knew there was potential there, but plenty of my suggestions ended up in the final show and some of them were improv on the day.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Johnson said the derailment damaged 310 feet of track, as the incident ripped the track railing from concrete pads.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This baluster railing allows the spotlight to remain on the lush garden just beyond.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
  • Lord of his own semi-attached rowhouse in Queens, Archie Bunker railed against the prevailing social winds in language that still has the power to shock.
    — Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • At his office, a prospective client called, railing against the forces that sold him a deconstructed Ping-Pong table.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Scarborough had enough And yet Trump persists, railing about all manner of things on Truth Social.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The crowds who gathered in Jerusalem, including families of Israelis still held in Gaza, called for new elections and railed against the government’s failure to free the hostages.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • String it over your mantle or wrap it around your staircase railing for an effortless upgrade.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan railed against the secular elite who had led the country to near economic collapse.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But Trump has long railed against federal law enforcement.
    — Jill Colvin, Chron, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Trump has spent weeks now railing against the investigation.
    — Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • For years, Trump has railed against early voting and ballot harvesting as tools of election rigging.
    — Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Its sharpest focus was on a subject Francis has frequently railed against: poverty.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024

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